At home there was still a brisk traffic in the touch-pieces given to the sufferer at the royal ceremony, and subsequently worn round the neck as a souvenir or a protective amulet.

Maj. Cloutier commented to Lt. Clemm, You know what they say about a girl who smokes: If she smokes, she pokes.

The Priest pulled the light merino carriage rug higher about his knees.

And the first days of it, he was going to give to bookshelves and pictures — those watercolors by Larry Johns he'd bought last year, nice, loose, sure-handed sketches of the surf, rocks, dunes around the handsome beach house Johns shared with Tom Owens.